Jeffrey Harris wrote:
I think we do need a list of human-readable timezones in the current language, and I don't think we want to be maintaining that list ourselves.. hence it would be best if we could rely on the system for this list. Seems like the tricky part is mapping any particular system timezone into a language that we can understand.Basically, on Windows, do we use the Win32 timezone definitions (good, consistent human readable names for timezones, variable cross platform behavior), or a zoneinfo database (then it's unclear what human readable label to use for the local timezone, since Windows' label for local time won't uniquely match an entry in the zoneinfo database).
This winds up being a somewhat tricky issue. See
<http://www.unicode.org/cldr/data/docs/design/formatting/time_zone_localization.html>
for more details then you probably wanted to know. Currently I don't believe there's very good cross-platform support for localized time zone names, but that's one of the things the CLDR/ICU project is trying to solve.
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